Controlling graphics display

Control graphics’ display performance

You
can control the resolution of graphics placed in your document.
You can change the display settings for the entire document or for
individual graphics. You can also change a setting that either allows
or overrides the display settings for individual documents.

Change a document’s display performance

A document always opens using the default
Display Performance preferences. You can change the display performance
of a document while it is open, but the setting won’t be saved with
the document.

If you’ve set the display performance of any
images separately, you can override the settings so all objects
use the same settings.

Choose View > Layout View.

Choose View > Display Performance, and select
an option from the submenu.

To force objects that you have set individually to display
using the document setting, deselect View > Display
Performance > Allow Object-Level Display Settings. (A
check mark indicates it is selected.)

Change an object’s display performance

Choose
View > Layout View.

To preserve the display performance for individual objects
when the document is closed and reopened, make sure Preserve Object-Level
Display Settings is selected in Display Performance preferences.

With the Selection tool or
Direct Selection tool , select
an imported graphic.

Select an imported graphic using the Position tool .

Do one of the following:

Select Object > Display Performance,
and choose a display setting.

Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS)
the image, and choose a display setting from the Display Performance
submenu.

Note:

To remove an object’s local display setting,
choose Use View Setting in the Display Performance submenu. To remove
local display settings for all graphics in the document, select
Clear Object-Level Display Settings in the View > Display
Performance submenu.

Display performance options

These options control how graphics are
displayed on the screen, but they do not affect the print quality
or exported output.

Use Display Performance preferences to
set the default option used to open all documents, and customize
the settings that define those options. Each display option has
separate settings for displaying raster images, vector graphics,
and transparencies.

Fast

Draws a raster image or vector graphic as a gray box (default).
Use this option when you want to quickly page through spreads that
have lots of images or transparency effects.

Typical

Draws a low-resolution proxy image (default) appropriate
for identifying and positioning an image or vector graphic. Typical
is the default option, and is the fastest way to display an identifiable
image.

High Quality

Draws a raster image or vector graphic at High Resolution (default). This option provides the highest quality but the slowest performance. Use this option when you want to fine-tune an image.

Note:

Image display options don’t affect output resolution when exporting or printing images within a document. When printing to a PostScript device, exporting to XHTML, or exporting to EPS or PDF, the final image resolution depends on the output options you choose when you print or export the file.

Set default display performance

The Display Performance preferences let you
set the default display option, which InCopy uses
for every document. You can change a document’s display performance
using the View menu, or change the setting for individual objects
using the Object menu. For example, if you work on projects that
contain numerous high-resolution photos (such as a catalog), you
may prefer to have all your documents open quickly. You can set
the default display option to Fast. When you want to see the images
in more detail, you can switch the document view to Typical or High
Quality (leaving the preference set to Fast).

You can also
choose to view or override display settings applied to individual objects.
If Preserve Object-Level Display Settings is selected, any settings
applied to objects are saved with the document.

Customize the display performance
options

You can customize the definitions of each
display performance option (Fast, Typical, and High Quality). Each
display option has separate settings for raster (bitmap) images,
vector graphics, and transparency effects.

Managed (linked)
InCopy stories include low-resolution proxy data for images so that
the full-resolution image doesn’t have to be downloaded from the
server whenever the file is checked out.

When a document’s blending space is CMYK and you have either enabled the overprint preview mode or soft proofing, opacity matting is done in CMYK rather than RGB. This means that partially transparent CMYK colors display as tinted CMYK colors.

To view anti-aliasing for text, stroke, fill, and other
page items, choose Enable Anti-aliasing. If text is converted to
outlines, then the resulting outlines can be anti-aliased (Mac OS
only).

To set the point size below which text displays as a
dimmed bar, type a value for Greek Type Below.

Click OK.

Note:

To reset all controls back to the original
default settings, click Use Defaults.

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